Greetings from South Africa
Sometimes, the world becomes a small place. I received this letter from South Africa recently, and will be sending something out to Mr. Everton shortly.
“Dear Sir,
I read with interest about the American Style of darts on the Wikipedia w-site.
I play with English tungsten steel tip darts, on a general or social basis at present, no clubs in our area.
It was therefor a suprise to find out about your USA darts style with wooden darts! and feather flights. and the board is different too.
Your players must be good on doubles, also with the triples ring next to it.
I would imagine they would be good on doubles on the standard English board too.
I would like to enquire as to where I could get an information brouchure with pictures of your particular dartboards please.
Also, any photo-copies of darts badges would be appreciated. I collect the plastic/polyester type of dart flights which include company/promotional and brewery related and sports, etc, dart flight prints - when I can get them as they are not generally sold in sports shops here. ”
He enclosed a couple of coasters promoting the local bottle store, “Robby’s Drinkwinkel Bottle Store”. I don’t have any brochures to send, but if you do, let me know (webmaster AT american style darts [one big word] dot com). I’ll be working up somethings and sending out a bit of a care package focused on American darts.
He included some links to South African darts sites:
Darts SA
Johannesburg Darts League
Troy Style Dartboards
I received this letter in July from S. Martin of upstate New York. With a website, generally you receive a ton of emails, and no one ever puts pen to paper and sends off something through the post. So, it was definitely fun to receive an actual letter.
He writes:
“Dear Sirs,
I’m from Albany NY originally. When I was a teenager, my friend and I used to play darts on an American dart baord. The board was shaped in a diamond, had a red background and the numbers were green or blue and white with a thin piece of wire separating them. They had a red center cork and an outside cork also.
They came in a couple of thicknesses 1″, 1 1/2″ & 2″. A guy in Waterford used to make them. Waterford is very close to Albany.
I would like to start playing again and I have searched on the internet with no success in finding these boards. This man in Waterford can’t be the only person that made these boards.
i you know can you give me an idea where I can get a new board like this? Also the wooden darts by Apex that we used on them.
Thanks”
I wasn’t sure about the second cork concept, but the diagonal/red board reminded me right away of something I had seen on George’s baseball darts website called a “Troy” board. You can see one towards the bottom of this page. There’s also a write-up at Bullseye that you can read here.
